List of shipwrecks in 1868

The list of shipwrecks in 1868 includes some of the ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1868.

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1868
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May Jun Jul Aug
Sep Oct Nov Dec
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January

13 January

List of shipwrecks: 13 January 1868
ShipCountryDescription
Albion  United Kingdom The brig ran aground off Whitford Point, Glamorgan and was abandoned by her seven crew, who all subsequently drowned.[1]

23 January

List of shipwrecks: 23 January 1868
ShipCountryDescription
Amethyst  United Kingdom The ship foundered on the Bristol Channel off Llanelli, Glamorgan with the loss of all hands.[1]
Anne  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked on Burry Holms, in the Bristol Channel.[1]
Brothers  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore at Llanelli.[1]
Huntress  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore at Llanelli.[1]
Jennie Celine  United Kingdom The ship foundered in the Bristol Channel off Llanelli with the loss of all hands.[1]
Mary Fanny  United Kingdom The ketch was driven ashore and damaged in Rhossili Bay. She was later repaired and returned to service. Mary Fanny was shelled and sunk by a German Submarine on 15 September 1918.[1][2]
Onward  United Kingdom The ship foundered in the Bristol Channel off Llanelli with the loss of all hands.[1]
Roscius  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore at Llanelli.[1]

24 January

List of shipwrecks: 24 January 1868
ShipCountryDescription
Marie Leocadie flag unknown The ship was wrecked at Bridport, Dorset, England.[3]

February

15 February

List of shipwrecks: 15 February 1868
ShipCountryDescription
Abbey  New South Wales The wooden brigantine was wrecked on the coast of New South Wales, Australia, three miles north of Crowdy Head, in a gale.

March

1 March

List of shipwrecks: 1 March 1868
ShipCountryDescription
HMS Lavinia  Royal Navy The frigate sank in the harbor at Plymouth, England, after colliding with the passenger ship SS Cimbria (German Empire North German Confederation).[4]

May

8 May

List of shipwrecks: 8 May 1868
ShipCountryDescription
Gleaner  United States The 135-ton Newport, Rhode Island, brig was thought to have hit the Seven Stones reef and sank 30 miles (48 km) northwest by west of Land's End, Cornwall, England.[5]

20 June

List of shipwrecks: 20 June 1868
ShipCountryDescription
Alicia  United Kingdom The barque was wrecked at Kurrachee, India. Her crew were rescued.[6]

June

1 June

24 June

List of shipwrecks: 24 June 1868
ShipCountryDescription
Selma  United States The steamship foundered in the Gulf of Mexico south of Galveston, Texas, off the mouth of the Brazos River.

July

9 July

List of shipwrecks: 9 July 1868
ShipCountryDescription
USS Suwanee  United States Navy The gunboat was wrecked in Shadwell Passage in Queen Charlotte Sound off the coast of British Columbia, Canada.

15 July

List of shipwrecks: 15 July 1868
ShipCountryDescription
Torrent  United States The wooden barque foundered in a storm and went ashore in Cook Inlet, Alaska.[7]

31 July

List of shipwrecks: 31 July 1868
ShipCountryDescription
Curlew  United Kingdom Carrying a cargo of lime she had taken on at the jetties of the Nessend Quarry to Castle Point tramway on Lindisfarne, the vessel was in the North Sea off the May Light on the coast of England when water came into contact with the cargo and the heat generated set fire to her. She sank, but her two-man crew was saved.[8]

August

13 August

List of shipwrecks: 13 August 1868
ShipCountryDescription
America  Peruvian Navy 1868 Arica earthquake: The steam corvette was lost when struck by a tsunamis generated by an earthquake at Arica (then part of Peru).[9]
USS Wateree  United States Navy
Wateree
1868 Arica earthquake: While the sidewheel gunboat was in port at Arica (then part of Peru), an earthquake struck which generated several tsunamis that hit Wateree. The last tsunami broke Wateree's anchor chains and drove her ashore almost 500 yards (457 metres) inland from the normal high-water mark.[10]
USS Fredonia  United States Navy While the storeship, a bark, was in port at Arica (then part of Peru), an earthquake struck which generated several tsunamis that hit Fredonia. The last tsunami broke Fredonia apart, killing 27 of her 32-man crew.[11]

19 August

List of shipwrecks: 19 August 1868
ShipCountryDescription
Alexandria  United States The tug caught fire and was destroyed at City Point, Virginia.

September

24 September

List of shipwrecks: 24 September 1868
ShipCountryDescription
HMS Rattler  Royal Navy The screw sloop-of-war was wrecked on a reef off northern Hokkaido, Japan.[12]

25 September

List of shipwrecks: 25 September 1868
ShipCountryDescription
Alexander Nevsky  Imperial Russian Navy The screw frigate was wrecked on a sandbar in the North Sea off Thyborøn, Jutland, Denmark, with the loss of five lives. Grand Duke Alexei, son of Tsar Alexander II, was on board and survived.

October

2 October

List of shipwrecks: 2 October 1868
ShipCountryDescription
HMS Griffon  Royal Navy The Philomel-class gunvessel collided with Pandora (flag unknown) off Little Popo in West Africa and was stranded.

9 October

List of shipwrecks: 9 October 1868
ShipCountryDescription
Mersey  United Kingdom En route from Sunderland, to Arbroath, Scotland, the schooner sprang a leak in the North Sea off Lindisfarne. Water came in contact with her cargo of quicklime, causing her to catch fire. She was beached, saving the crew, but the vessel was lost.[13]

November

15 November

List of shipwrecks: 15 November 1868
ShipCountryDescription
HMS Gnat  Royal Navy The Beacon-class gunvessel was wrecked on Balabac Island in the Philippines.
Kaiyō Maru Republic of Ezo The steam frigate was wrecked off Esashi, Hokkaido, Japan, during a storm.

29 November

List of shipwrecks: 29 November 1868
ShipCountryDescription
Northerner  United States
The wreck of Northerner on 6 May 2010.
The schooner capsized and sank without loss of life in Lake Michigan five miles southeast of Port Washington, Wisconsin, while under tow by Cuyahoga (flag unknown). Her crew were rescued by Cuyahoga.

December

4 December

List of shipwrecks: 4 December 1868
ShipCountryDescription
Andrew Jackson  United Kingdom The clipper was wrecked on a reef in the Gaspar Strait in the Netherlands East Indies.

6 December

List of shipwrecks: 6 December 1868
ShipCountryDescription
North Britain  United Kingdom The barque was driven ashore at Long Rock, Mount's Bay, Cornwall, England.[14]

21 December

List of shipwrecks: 21 December 1868
ShipCountryDescription
Kinloss  United Kingdom The schooner was wrecked in the North Sea near Muchalls, Kincardineshire, Scotland, with the loss of one of her five crew.[15]

28 December

List of shipwrecks: 28 December 1868
ShipCountryDescription
Leopard  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore at Westward Ho!, Devon. Her crew were rescued by Hope ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution) with the loss of a crewman from the lifeboat. Leopard was on a voyage from the West Indies to Gloucester.[1]
Pace Austrian Empire The ship was wrecked in Bideford Bay with the loss of two of her fourteen crew. Survivors were rescued by Hope ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution). Pace was on a voyage from Glasgow, Renfrewshire, United Kingdom to Fiume.[1]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1868
ShipCountryDescription
General McNeil Unknown The sternwheel paddle steamer struck a snag and sank in the Missouri River at Howards Bend near St. Louis, Missouri, sometime during the 1860s.[16]
Tasmanian Maid  United Kingdom The paddle steamer was wrecked on Kawarau Reef at New Plymouth, New Zealand.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Tovey, Ron. "A Chronology of Bristol Channel Shipwrecks" (PDF). Swansea Docks. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 December 2014. Retrieved 19 December 2014.
  2. ↑ "Mary Fanny". Uboat.net. Retrieved 19 December 2014.
  3. ↑ "Historical List of Shipwrecks at Chesil Beach & from Bridport to Lyme Regis". Burton Bradstock Online. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
  4. ↑ promare.co.uk HMS Lavinia
  5. ↑ Larn, Richard (1992). The Shipwrecks of the Isles of Scilly. Nairn: Thomas & Lochar. ISBN 0-946537-84-4.
  6. ↑ "No. 23684". The London Gazette. 2 December 1870. pp. 5619–5620.
  7. ↑ "The Torrent Shipwreck Project". Lostshipwrecks.com. Retrieved 27 April 2010.
  8. ↑ Jermy, Roger C. (1992). Lindisfarne's Limestone Past: Quarries, Tramways and Kilns. Morpeth: Northumberland County Library. ISBN 1 874020 04 3. Page 43.
  9. ↑ Naval History and Heritage Command: Confederate Ships: Texas
  10. ↑ "Wateree". United States Navy. Retrieved 9 May 2014.
  11. ↑ "Fredonia". United States Navy. Retrieved 12 March 2016.
  12. ↑ Anonymous, "Wreck of H.M.S. Rattler," The Empire (Sydney), December 29, 1868.
  13. ↑ Jermy, Roger C. (1992). Lindisfarne's Limestone Past: Quarries, Tramways and Kilns. Morpeth: Northumberland County Library. ISBN 1 874020 04 3. Page 43.
  14. ↑ Carter, C (1998). The Port of Penzance. A History. Lydney: Black Dwarf Publications.
  15. ↑ "No. 23489". The London Gazette. 16 April 1869. p. 2294.
  16. ↑ Gaines, p. 106.

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Ship events in 1868
Ship launches: 1863 1864 1865 1866 1867 1868 1869 1870 1871 1872 1873
Ship commissionings: 1863 1864 1865 1866 1867 1868 1869 1870 1871 1872 1873
Ship decommissionings: 1863 1864 1865 1866 1867 1868 1869 1870 1871 1872 1873
Shipwrecks: 1863 1864 1865 1866 1867 1868 1869 1870 1871 1872 1873
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